Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective

Kindred Collective is a movement building organization. We conceptualize healing justice not as a movement in and of itself, but rather as a framework for movements to address collective harm and trauma. We are developing synergies of activism, organizing and healing across generations and cultures, to promote a deeper commitment to building a better world, and generating grassroots solutions to the issues we face.

From the Gulf South to Gaza!

We demand the right to remain. The right to migrate. And the right to return!

August 29, 2005 is the day that Hurricane Katrina hit landfall. All this week social movement forces have converged in the Gulf South to commemorate 20 years of resistance and build power in this moment.

Today, August 29, 2025, marks the opening of a historic convergence in Detroit, Michigan—the People’s Conference on Palestine. This gathering convenes at a critical juncture to deepen collective strategy and strengthen the mass movement for Palestinian liberation in North America.

Project South is proud to be a part of the Katrina 20 Week of Action, a series of over 100 community-led events organized across three states in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. We culminated a six-month Katrina 20 Movement Assembly process yesterday, affirming commitments to practice global solidarity and action. We are also proud to endorse the People's Conference on Palestine bringing together over 3,000 people to continue deepening our collective organizing for a Free Palestine.

In the spirit of cross-movement solidarity, we invite our movements to stand together today:

1) Please share the graphic in this post, using “From the Gulf South to Gaza” to demand the Right to Remain, the Right to Migrate, and the Right to Return as a shared call for solidarity and action against violence, displacement, and climate crisis.

2) Share out the hashtags:
: the call to remember and reckon with the devastation & systemic displacement after Katrina. The right to remain and to return have been a call from the frontlines for two decades; the right to migrate with dignity is a call from the climate movement's reckoning with extreme weather events & political violence.

: the guiding principle for the Second Annual People’s Conference for Palestine. Gaza keeps our path true: it reminds us of our direction in the struggle and the sacrifices that have been made by the Palestinian people; it exposes the forces that we have to contend with on the path to liberation.

We Remember Katrina.

We Stand with Palestine.

This Wednesday join the Southern Movement Assembly for the next State of The South Call: June 25th, 5:30PM CT/6:30PM ET!

This month, we’re doing a Land and Liberation Deep Dive. Come to explore how being in harmony with the land is interconnected with your current work, while learning how to support the work that is already happening in this frontline. We've invited leaders within the SMA to highlight three particular areas:

Environmental justice/Climate Change/Just Transition - Klie {Imagine Water Works}

Food sovereignty - Georie {Symbodied} and Ayinde {Project South/Sapelo Island }

Gain/Retain/Fight for Control of Land - Johnathan {Silver Run Forest Farm, Cooperate Shenandoah}

Register at the link in our bio or at: bit.ly/StateOfTheSouth-June2025

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The Southern Movement Assembly is a formation of organizations, groups, and Southern frontline assemblies that converge to develop shared action plans rooted in political alignment. As leadership, we practice bottom-up, grassroots governance to build movement infrastructure and carry out collective plans in view of an ongoing capitalist collapse that is intensified by white supremacy, climate crisis, and rising fascism.

March 24, 2025 The Weather Report · Episode

We wanted to share some resources for folks as we continue to navigate this moment and the moments to come.

Our folks at Reclaiming our Own Transcendence have some beautiful offerings.

Anger Lab: https://www.wetakeroot.com/angerlab

Reclaiming Cycles of Harm: https://www.wetakeroot.com/healing-cycles-of-harm

Recovery Circle: https://www.wetakeroot.com/rootrecovery

Liberatory Practice Space: https://www.wetakeroot.com/rootrecovery

As Kindred evolves, so does our leadership!

Please join us as we welcome our new co-leads, Ariana Lima Oliver and b. sokari brown.

We are grateful for all the years they have been a part of the Kindred Collective and are excited to watch Kindred shift into the moment with their leadership.

En Puerto Rico.

We are mourning. We are grieving.

But we are not done.

Tonight, join movement leaders and healers as we take a moment to reground ourselves and restore our energies for the road ahead.

You will need a yoga mat or some comfortable place to settle, a blanket and pillows, comfortable clothing, water or other beverage, and a journal.

Come through. Let us hold space for ourselves and each other.

Kindred would like to share the humbling news that Kifu Faruq—founder of the Medicine Bowl has joined the ancestors!

Kifu was a beloved comrade, and a powerful force as a southern Black q***r mother, healer & warrior. She left us way too soon, and we will continue to hold her legacy and her spirit up in the light 🕯️